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Seven Against Thebes. N. Wecklein. . .

Current edition Experimental

Commentary (N. Wecklein, 1902; German; OCR draft) (German) (Seven Against Thebes, explanatory commentary pp. 15–100. Single-witness OCR; source readings and all reference placements require scan review.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 417-630 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 417-630 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 481 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 481 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 481 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 481 focus
ἐπεύχομαι δὴ τάδε μὲν εὐτυχεῖν, ἰὼ
πρόμαχ᾽ ἐμῶν δόμων, τοῖσι δὲ δυστυχεῖν.
τέταρτος ἄλλος, γείτονας πύλας ἔχων
Ὄγκας Ἀθάνας, ξὺν βοῇ παρίσταται,
Ἱππομέδοντος σχῆμα καὶ μέγας τύπος·
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ἅλω δὲ πολλήν, ἀσπίδος κύκλον λέγω,
ἔφριξα δινήσαντος· οὐκ ἄλλως ἐρῶ.
ὁ σηματουργὸς δ᾽ οὔ τις εὐτελὴς ἄρ᾽ ἦν,
ὅστις τόδ᾽ ἔργον ὤπασεν πρὸς ἀσπίδι,
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 481 focus
Translations (8)
Seven Against Thebes Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 417-630 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 481 focus
I pray that this side may succeed, O champion of my dwellings! and that with them it may go ill; and as they, with frenzied mind, utter exceedingly proud vaunts against our city, so may Jove the avenger regard them in his wrath.
Another, the fourth, who occupies the adjoining gates of Onca Minerva, stands hard by with a shout, the shape and mighty mould of Hippomedon; and I shuddered at him as he whirled the immense orb, I mean the circumference of his buckler—I will not deny it. And assuredly it was not any mean artificer in heraldry who produced this work upon his buckler, a Typhon, darting forth through his fire-breathing mouth dark smoke, the quivering sister of fire, and the circular cavity of the hollow-bellied shield hath been made further solid with coils of serpents. He himself, too, hath raised the war-cry; and possessed by Mars, raves for the onslaught, like a Thyiad
, glaring terror. Well must we guard against the attack of such a man as this, for Terror is already vaunting himself hard by our gates.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 481 focus
sois point avare de rapports.
Dispensateur jeter sur eux un regard de courroux.
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 481 focus
Go then, and glory be thy guide!
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For thee, brave youth, we pour this ardent pray'r,
And fav'ring Heav'n ſhall hear.
Go then, my houſe's guardian, go,
And ruſhing on the foe,
Bravely repel their vaunting pride.
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And as each furious ſoul
Hurls the ferocious menace high,
May he, that rules the ſky,
In vengeance his indignant eyeballs roll!
At the next gate, nam'd from the martial Goddess
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Onca Minerva, ſtands Hippomedon e
.
I heard his thund'ring voice, I ſaw his form
In bulk and ſtature proudly eminent;
I ſaw him roll his shield, large, maſſy, round,
Of broad circumference:
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it ſtruck my ſoul
With terror. On its orb no vulgar artiſt
Expreſs'd this image, A Typhæus huge,
Diſgorging from his ſoul enfoulder'd jaws,
In fierce effuſion, wreaths of duſky ſmoke,
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Signal of kindling flames: its bending verge
With folds of twiſted ſerpents border'd round.
With ſhouts the giantchief provokes the war;
And in the ravings of outrageous valour
Glares terror from his eyes. Behoves thee then
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Strong oppoſition to his firey rage,
Which at the gates e'en now ſpreads wild diſmay.
Eschilo, I Sette a Tebe: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Sette a Tebe: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 481 focus
O difensore dei nostri penati,
a noi sorrida benevola sorte,
trista ai nemici, che vanti superbi
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scaglian su Tebe, con mente delira.
Giove adirato li miri, e ci vendichi.
Con urli il quarto alle vicine porte
d'Atene Òncade sta: d'Ippomedonte
l'immane mole e la figura. Un brivido,
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non lo posso negar, m'invase, quando
il cerchio dello scudo, aia gigante,
lo vidi rotear. Né vile artefice
fu chi l'insegna dello scudo pinse.
Tifone dalla bocca, alito fiammeo,
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scaglia negra fuliggine, sorella
volubile del fuoco; e intorno intorno,
della concava spera orlato è il cuoio
con viluppi di serpi.
Alto ei levava
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l'urlo di guerra: si lanciava, pieno
di Marte, come furïosa Tïade,
alla pugna: terror gli occhi spiravano.
Ben dalle prove di quest'uomo guàrdati:
ché terrore alle porte alto già grida.
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Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 481 focus
Opto enim ut huic bene,
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Heu defenfor mearum domorum, illis uerò male fuc
cedat.
Et quemadmodum fuperba dicunt contra urbem
Furenti mente, ſic ipſos
Jupiter indignans, iratus inſpiciat.
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Quartus alius uicinas portas babens
Oncas Athanas,cum clamore aftat,
Hippomedontis figura, magnus ſtrepitus:
Aequor magnum clypei circulum dico.
Horrui co rotante, non aliter dicam:
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Qui infignia fecit, non ſanè ignobilis erat.
Qui hoc opus appofuit clypeo,
Typhona emittentem igniuomum per os
Fumum nigrum,celerem ignis fratrem:
Serpentum uerò ſpiris, qui circundat clypeum,
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Limbus prætextus eſt.
Ipſe uerò iubilauit, concitus marte.
Clamat ad auxilium tanquam Baccha uidens metu.
Huius uerò uiri experientia uitanda eſt:
Metus iam ad portas iactatur.
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English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1908) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 481 focus
O thou, the warder of my home,
Grant, unto us, Fate's favouring tide,
Send on the foemen doom!
They fling forth taunts of frenzied pride,
On them may Zeus with glare of vengeance come!
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Lo, next him stands a fourth and shouts amain,
By Pallas Onca's portal, and displays
A different challenge; 'tis Hippomedon!
Huge the device that starts up from his targe
In high relief; and, I deny it not,
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I shuddered, seeing how, upon the rim,
It made a mighty circle round the shield—
No sorry craftsman he, who wrought that work
And clamped it all around the buckler's edge!
The form was Typhon: from his glowing throat
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Rolled lurid smoke, spark-litten, kin of fire!
The flattened edge-work, circling round the whole,
Made strong support for coiling snakes that grew
Erect above the concave of the shield:
Loud rang the warrior's voice; inspired for war,
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He raves to slay, as doth a Bacchanal,
His very glance a terror! of such wight
Beware the onset! closing on the gates,
He peals his vaunting and appalling cry!
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylos. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1854. Native Donner line citations, Smyth card correspondence, selected textual readings and metrical facsimiles. Remaining OCR differences and unattributed reading notes are documented in the linked review inventory.) — 481 focus
Laut fleh' ich: Ihn kränze des Sieges Glück,
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Der meinen erd kämpfend schirmt; den Feind treffe Fluch!
Wie sie mit stolzem Wort wider die Stadt in wahn=
sinnigem Muthe sich brüsten,
Strafe sie Zeus, der Vergelter, zürnend!
Ein vierter Heerfürst, der am Nachbarthor gebeut
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Der Pallas Onka, stürmt heran mit Donnerlaut:
Es ist der kühne Riesenwuchs Hippomedons.
Ich sah deu weiten Sonnenhof, des Schildes Nund,
Ihn schwingen, und mir graute: frei bekenn' ich es.
Ein nicht gemeiner Künstler war der Bildner, traun,
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Der solch ein Kunstwerk eingeäßt auf seinen Schild :
Den Typhon, der glutathmend aus weitoffnem Mund
Den schwarzen Qualm, des Feuers flücht'gen Bruder, sprüht;
Mit vielgewundnen Schlangen ist der runde Saum
Des hochgewölbten Schildes ringsumher bedeckt.
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Er hebt den Schlachtruf, und von Ares trunken stürzt
Er sich zum Kampfe, gleich Thyaden, Tod im Blick.
Wo solche Männer kämpfen, ziemt's vorsichtig sein;
Denn grauser Schrecken brüstet sich am Thore schon.

Notes on the current edition

Seven Against Thebes

1. Single-witness OCR: uncollated. Source layout and readings require scan review; automatic flags are not exhaustive.
2. Reference placement provisional: provisional local reference window from running Greek. Verify the printed source numbering and note scope against the scan.

Commentary

Critical apparatus to Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Seven Against Thebes.) focus

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γείτονας πύλας ... Ὄγκας Ἀθάνας ... ξὺν βοῇ:
γείτονας πύλας ἔχων Ὄγκας Αθάνας
alfert Thomas M. p. 76, 19. ed. Ritsch.
πύλας ἄλλος γείτονας
Par. Ε.
πύλας ἄλλας γείτονας
Vind. 2. 4.
ὀγγὰς
G.
ὄγγας
, cum glossa
τῆς μεγαλόφρονος
, Mosc. 2.
ἀθήνας
G. Οχ. Hesychius
Ὄγκας Ἀθηνάς, τὰς Ωγυγίους πύλας λέγει
.
ξύμβοῇ
Lips.
σὺν βοῇ
Par. L.

Commentary (N. Wecklein, 1902; German; OCR draft) (Seven Against Thebes, explanatory commentary pp. 15–100. Single-witness OCR; source readings and all reference placements require scan review.) focus

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zweites Epeiso- dion. Eteokles tritt auf mit Me- II lanippos (395), Megareus (459), Lasthenes (607f.), um die Mit- teilung des Kundschafters (66 ff.) entgegenzunehmen, vgl. Einl. S. 9 f. Die erste Szene, der Mittelpunkt des Stückes, gibt eine glänzende Schilderung der sieben feindlichen und der ihnen an den sieben Toren entgegenstehenden Thebanischen Heerführer. In der zweiten Szene macht der Chor den vergeblichen Versuch Eteokles von dem greuel- vollen Zweikampf mit dem Bruder zurückzuhalten. Damit gibt dieses Epeisodion die ethische Moti- vierung für den Untergang der argivischen Heerführer und der feindlichen Brüder. Wie auch sonst bei Äschylos da, wo dem Dialoge antistrophische Chorika eingefügt sind, Symmetrie des Dialogs sich nachweisen läßt, so hat Ritschl (Jahrb. f. Philol. Bd. 77. 1858. S. 761.) symmetrische An- lage auch in den sieben Reden des Boten und Erwiderungen des Eteokles wahrgenommen. Da an einigen Stellen der Text unsicher oder lückenhaft ist, läßt sich die Verszahl nicht bei allen Partien mit voller Bestimmtheit feststellen. Doch scheint mit Beiseitelassung der zwei ankündigenden Verse des Boten 362f., denen die zwei zur nächsten Szene überleitenden Verse des Eteokles 662 f. entsprechen, die Gliederung der ganzen Partie 364 661 folgende zu sein: Π IV ΑΓ20- ΕΤ20 | στρ. α' | ΑΓ14- ΕΤ14 | ἀντ. α' | ΑΓ14- ΕΤ14 | στρ. β' | ΑΓ20- ΕΤ20| αντ. β|| V VI VII ΑΓ22- ΕΤ 22 | στρ. γ΄ | ΑΓ 29- ΕT 29 | αντ. γ΄ | ΑΓ 22- ΕΤ 22.

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,,Möge es diesen Worten (464466) entsprechend gut gehen, Eteoklos aber und seine Gesellen mögen lästern (456); wie sie aber lästern, so möge ihnen Zeus ver- gelten". Dieser Gedankenzusammen- hang ist damit gewonnen, daß Sv- στομεῖν an die Stelle des nichts- sagenden δυστυχείν gesetzt ist. Vgl. Soph. Αnt. 127 Ζεὺς γὰρ μεγάλης γλώσσης κόμπους ὑπερεχθαίρει.